{"id":6005,"date":"2025-03-26T20:49:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6005"},"modified":"2025-03-26T20:49:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:49:04","slug":"adamson-r-pte-40982-1st-royal-scots-fusiliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/adamson-r-pte-40982-1st-royal-scots-fusiliers\/","title":{"rendered":"Adamson R Pte 40982 1st Royal Scots Fusiliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ADAMSON, ROBERT, Private, No. 40982, 1st Battn. (21st Foot) The Royal Scots Fusiliers, s. of James Adamson, of Dombristle, co. Fife, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Benjamin Dick; b. Govanhill, co. Lanark, 12 Dec. 1881; educ. Moss Green School, Crossgates; was a Gamekeeper; joined the 3rd Ayrshire Yeomanry 4 July, 1916; transferred to the 1st Royal Scots Fusiliers; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Dec. 1916, being employed as a Stretcher-Bearer for eight months, and was killed in action near Cambrai 4 Oct. 1918. Buried where he fell. His Commanding Officer wrote: &#8220;I have heard nothing but good regarding his soldierly qualities, and his bearing in action,&#8221; and the Chaplain: &#8220;He was highly esteemed, not only as a soldier, but also as a man. When the news of his death became known there were many sad hearts.&#8221; He m. at Kirkcaldy, 4 Oct. 1910, Jane Drummond (Ruchland Cottages, Prestonkirk), dau. of Alexander McGregor, and had two children: James Alexander, b. 15 Jan. 1916, and Sarah Thomson, b. 15 Nov. 1912.<\/p>\n<p>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADAMSON, ROBERT, Private, No. 40982, 1st Battn. (21st Foot) The Royal Scots Fusiliers, s. of James Adamson, of Dombristle, co. Fife, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Benjamin Dick; b. Govanhill, co. Lanark, 12 Dec. 1881; educ. Moss Green School, Crossgates; was a Gamekeeper; joined the 3rd Ayrshire Yeomanry 4 July, 1916; transferred to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-scots-fusiliers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6006,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005\/revisions\/6006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}